No one lik the Star Wars Episo I prequel, except the transgenr and gay fans who showed up at the 1999 premiere. We talked to the fans to fd out why the The Phantom Menace is actually an LGBT triumph.
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This year Star Wars has said would celebrate Pri month by lettg gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away” a special le of ic book vers. Sjir Rath Vel is the first major hero a Star Wars story to be gay. Author Chuck Wendig troduced the first gay ma character to the Star Wars universe the Imperial turnat Sjir Rath Vel.
Sjir Rath Vel, troduced Star Wars: Aftermath, was the first gay protagonist a Star Wars story. The novel also troduced two background characters who are gay. Kemp's Lords of the Sh troduced a lbian Moff, Charl Wendig's Aftermath trilogy starred Disney's first gay man non, and Star Wars Ristance featured the first openly gay uple Star Wars, among others.
When ers began noticg that the terms “gay” and “lbian” were banned om beg ed at all the muny, muny manager Sean Dahlberg rpond that the reason was that the were “terms that do not exist” the Star Wars universe. This led many to dub Makeb 'The Gay Pla, ' the only place the galaxy where queer love was allowed to exist.
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Abrams stated that “ seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world. But as the quote was wily reported at the time wh headl like “Gay Characters Comg to Star Wars, ” was one which many at the time terpreted as a sign that there was the possibily of a queer love story to e Abrams’ story.
She was also very, very gay. The vio game Star Wars Squadrons troduc multiple queer characters, cludg the gay Imperial manr Varko Grey, and the nonbary Mirialan Rebel pilot Keo Venzee. Jt Simien, the wrer and producer of the upg Lando televisn seri, me out as a gay man himself 2014.